Most people in tech to me seem to be suckers looking to buy a bridge IMO.

"I am not into money or power man, I just want to be a good person and save the world man"

I just can't believe such simplistic, transparent, bullshit works so consistently as to become standard PR.

Really? You really can't think of a stupid idea of from the past 20 years. I think this is being totally intellectually dishonest or you waste too much time with political bullshit so you have lost the ability to think outside of rhetorical response to win a twitter flame war.

How about all the dumb ideas that lead smart people to basically blow up the financial system in 2008 to start.

Trying to find more books to read is a bit antithetical to the way.

I would try leaving your books and phone at home and go camping with not much planned or much to do.

and watch water.

We could anthropomorphize any textbook too and claim it has human level understanding of the subject. We could then claim the second edition of the textbook understands the subject better than the first. Anyone who claims the LLM "understands" is doing exactly this. What makes the LLM more absurd though is the LLM will actually tell you it doesn't understand anything while a book remains silent but people want to pretend we are living in the Matrix and the LLM is alive.

Most arguments then descend into confusing the human knowledge embedded in a textbook with the human agency to apply the embedded knowledge. Software that extracts the knowledge from all textbooks has nothing to do with the human agency to use that knowledge.

I love chatGPT4 and had signed up in the first few hours it was released but I actually canceled my subscription yesterday. Part because of the bullshit with the company these past few days but also because it had just become a waste of time the past few months for me. I learned so much this year but I hit a wall that to make any progress I need to read the textbooks on the subjects I am interested in just like I had to this time last year before chatGPT.

We also shouldn't forget that children anthropomorphize toys and dolls quite naturally. It is entirely natural to anthropomorphize a LLM and especially when it is designed to pretend it is typing back a response like a human would. It is not bullshitting you though when it pretends to type back a response about how it doesn't actually understand what it is writing.